The FCC has not been transparent, efficient or accountable. I recently interviewed a staffer at the Government Accountability Office who referred to the FCC as a "dark hole."

For example, in June, 2012, Microwave News
reported that is common for the FCC to issue a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to gather public
input about an issue and then fail to act on this input in a timely
manner:

"The commission is under no obligation to take any further action after
issuing the NOI, or any other step along the way. To put the process in
perspective, the last time the FCC proposed amending its RF [radiofrequency] rules was
back in 2003 and that was to fine-tune some relatively non-controversial
issues like measurement protocols. In other words, the FCC's 2003 amendments
are still pending nearly ten years after they were first proposed.
Nearly completed drafts of what will soon be issued have been
languishing on the FCC's back burner for about five years. And those
were refinements on the original rules released in 1996
when the number of cell phone subscribers in the U.S. was a tenth of
what it is today and people used them, on average, less than four
minutes a day."

Some twelve years later, the FCC has yet to act on this 2003 NOI regarding radiofrequency measurement protocols.

Thus we should not expect the FCC to act soon on the far more important 2013 NOI,
"Reassessment of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency
Exposure Limits and Policies" (ET Docket Number 13-84) and "Proposed
Changes in the Commission's Rules
Regarding Human Exposure to Radiofrequency
Electromagnetic Fields" (ET Docket Number 03-137).

If H.R. 2583 becomes law, I question whether it will benefit public health or whether it will help the powerful corporate interests. The basis for my concern is a recent
analysis by Norm Alster, an investigative reporter who spent a year at
Harvard while he wrote a book which reveals that the FCC has been captured by
the industries it regulates (http://bit.ly/FCCexposed):

"Currently
presiding over the FCC is Tom Wheeler, a man who has led the two most
powerful industry lobbying groups: CTIA and NCTA. It is Wheeler who once
supervised a $25 million industry-funded research effort on wireless
health effects. But when handpicked research leader George Carlo
concluded that wireless radiation did raise the risk of brain tumors,
Wheeler‘s CTIA allegedly rushed to muffle the message. ”You do the
science. I‘ll take care of the politics,” Carlo recalls Wheeler saying."

"As
a captured agency, the FCC is a prime example of institutional
corruption. Officials in such institutions do not need to receive
envelopes bulging with cash. But even their most well-intentioned
efforts are often overwhelmed by a system that favors powerful private
influences, typically at the expense of public interest."

In the documentary film, Mobilize, John Walls who was Vice President of the CTIA at the time, asserted:

"I bet our people, our organization have
had 500 meetings with the FCC over the past year on 25 different
topics. So the fact that we would ever go to the FCC, if somebody
thought that unusual they don’t understand what’s going on in
regard to the give and take in the formation of policy." http://bit.ly/MobilizeTranscript

In
sum, the FCC Process Reform Act of 2015 does not go far enough in
reforming the FCC and may result in increased threats to public health.